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Buttcoin purse posted:So I was listening to Deltron 3030, and when the track The Assman 640 Speaks came on, I thought "hey, Assman 640 would be a good username", and I did a web search to see if there are already hundreds of people using that name, and learned that it's actually a dictation machine from the 1960s with a turntable. I didn't know such a thing existed, but I guess it explains how that track sounds - they must have used one. So is that thing a combo recording lathe/dictation machine or does it just play records too? Crazy because by 1960 one would assume people had switched to open reel tapes.
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It's a magnetic disk, at least, as far as I can tell https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/assmann_reprodukta_640.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6TbxT2uTS0 E: looks like Timex did a few of these, too http://ftldesign.com/Timex/index.htm Queen Combat has a new favorite as of 07:08 on Jan 27, 2019 |
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poo poo I'm only in my 30s and Techmoan is talking about how having a black and white TV wasn't the stardard in the 80s. I guess 90s Australia was really behind
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Humphreys posted:poo poo I'm only in my 30s and Techmoan is talking about how having a black and white TV wasn't the stardard in the 80s. I guess 90s Australia was really behind 
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Feb 2, 2019 15:30
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In australia I figured they'd just have a white tv
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Regular Nintendo posted:In australia I figured they'd just have a white tv Nice
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Feb 2, 2019 16:59
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In the 90s I had a little black and white TV in my room. Or maybe my sister had the black and white one. All I know is that mine had a dial and I needed an rf adapter for my n64.
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I was born in 75 and the only B&W TV we had was the one my dad had in the shop area of our garage. He built our first color TV the same year I was born with a kit from Heathkit. It was a console style and it was well thought out kit with most of the guts mounted to a slide out tray that was easily serviceable. That thing was heavy as hell, though.
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Feb 2, 2019 17:24
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Cojawfee posted:In the 90s I had a little black and white TV in my room. Or maybe my sister had the black and white one. All I know is that mine had a dial and I needed an rf adapter for my n64. Yeah I had a little 13" black and white display for my NES. There were color TVs elsewhere in the house but uninterrupted Nintendo time was more valuable to me than colors.
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First color TV I had in my room, I had to buy myself with my after-school job. This was the mid 90's. Color TV's cost money, however little or much, and used B&W TV's were everywhere. As a kid I watched so much black and white television that I was surprised by the colors on Star Trek: TNG when I saw them on a color TV. We weren't the richest family on the block, however, a kid having a color TV in their room up to maybe the early 90's was a thing of mild wonder. I worked for an electronics retailer into the late 90's and I was really stunned when someone would drop $1000-3000 on a big-assed TV. Giant screens are dirt cheap and thin as heck these days. So back to my childhood, my first TV console was an old castoff Atari 2600 with about 20 games, the model that Atari flooded the market with before kinda going bust (under $50, now isn't that nice?), and it had the little switch on it in the back that let you flick it for black and white TV's. It's only since I built a RetroPie a couple years ago that I've seen some of those games in color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=913xrM9FYpI
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Finally got around to watching that Techmoan video and he mentions that a kid might have a black and white TV in their room so that seems like my experience as a kid.
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I had a TV that looked like this when I was a kid in the 1980s - except the speaker grille was different Played Super Mario Bros, and tons of rented NES games on this thing in black and white. Mostly Super Mario Bros 3. I made my parents rent Mario 3 so many times they could have bought a few of those cartridges. A neat feature of this TV is that it's got a separate power switch, instead of having it integrated into the volume control like a lot of TVs from the era. So it would keep your volume setting just like a modern TV. This is a twelve incher, not even thirteen! It's a "GE Performance Television" from the 1970s, if you're curious. On the "big" TV in the living room which was a Sharp brand 19" we had a cable box that looked like this:  The noise the little slider made was great, I got a smack more than once for racing it back and forth. Vanagoon has a new favorite as of 18:47 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Our main TV had a color switch button (with a cool green iris looking thing) that could make the color images B&W. It also had the screwhead terminals for the UHF channels. I had a tiny, tiny B&W set in my room for a while. I was watching Good Times and noticed a bulb in the back, so I poured a little water onto it. It caused the image to dim. Shortly after the TV died and I got a 14" color TV with a digital tuner and remote  Joke was on me since it didn't have composite inputs so I was forced to do the infinite regression of cable cords for the game consoles I had.
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Mammal Sauce posted:He built our first color TV the same year I was born with a kit from Heathkit. Thank you for mentioning this -- I had no idea it was a thing and it's kinda 
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I got a tv for christmas when I was probably around 10 or 12, so roughly mid-90s because I was hogging the main TV with video games too much. It was a 12 or 13" color and there are many pictures of me sitting like a foot from the bookshelf it was on looking up at a 45 degree angle playing sega.
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doctorfrog posted:First color TV I had in my room, I had to buy myself with my after-school job. This was the mid 90's. Color TV's cost money, however little or much, and used B&W TV's were everywhere. As a kid I watched so much black and white television that I was surprised by the colors on Star Trek: TNG when I saw them on a color TV. We weren't the richest family on the block, however, a kid having a color TV in their room up to maybe the early 90's was a thing of mild wonder. I worked for an electronics retailer into the late 90's and I was really stunned when someone would drop $1000-3000 on a big-assed TV. Giant screens are dirt cheap and thin as heck these days. I feel like "idiot white-bread advertising rap" is going to have to be recognized, however reluctantly, as a genre by historians.
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When I was but a young'n my parents gave me their old TV-radio. I don't recall the exact model but I swear it was a slightly more modern version of this Hitachi here. FM, Medium Wave, Long Wave, a 5(?) inch monochrome CRT and integrated cassette player? It was by far the coolest gadget and I was heartbroken when it finally broke down.
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Trabant posted:Thank you for mentioning this -- I had no idea it was a thing and it's kinda This is the model he built:  That TV was in the living until we moved a second time in 1990, he passed it on to a friend of his. It was really reliable except every 6 months or so, he'd have to slide that tray out and play with the fine tuning for the tuner and then it would be good again.
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Mammal Sauce posted:This is the model he built: I'm kinda want to build one of those kits, but as if they will be new old stock.
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My dad still has a Heathkit oscilloscope, he's retired now so it's probably just collecting dust as his hobby is now watching CNN for every waking moment of the day.
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Humphreys posted:I'm kinda want to build one of those kits, but as if they will be new old stock. My grandfather built his own TV in the 1950s from either articles or a kit in "practical television" magazine. Apparently it was very flash for the neigbourhood, being 12" while everyone else paid more for a store bought 9". I think my family is TV mad and takes it seriously because they upgraded as fast as possible. We all had colour TVs before 1980 - at least the main large TV in the lounge/family room was (my parents, uncles/aunts, grandparents etc) Maybe the only b&W sets were older or relegated ones sent to my parents bedroom. But even that was replaced with a 12/13/14" colour a year or so later because I remember playing my atari 2600 in colour in their bedroom around 1983. Yars revenge was a lovely enough game as it was, imagine having to play that in B&W? And hell the first thing my older brother did when he got a job in 1988 was buy a 59-68cm panasonic colour TV and run an antenna to his room; so by 1988 there was 3 colour TVs here - 2x large screens and a 12-14" in my parents bedroom. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 20:00 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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One of my earliest TV memories was in the early 80s when my parents let us hook the Atari up to the 25" console TV in the living room as a treat. We were amazed because the alligators in Frogger were green. No, the TV in our playroom was not black and white. I think my brother and I probably just twisted the color/tint knobs or something because they were brown on that TV. That console ended up being the main TV for video games through the NES and SNES eras. In the 90s the picture would occasionally get screwy, but a good smack on the top a la The Fonz fixed it right up. At some point in the late 80s I got a small old spare color TV from my grandfather, I think, that I put in my room. There was a switch to toggle between VHF and UHF. Instead of a dial or number keys, there were Channel Down and Channel Up buttons. Channel numbers were printed on the plastic just below the screen. When you pressed one of the buttons, a colored bar (red or green depending on the selected band) would appear and move across the screen, scanning for the next channel. When it found one, it would stop for a second above one of the numbers printed on the TV, then disappear, letting you know the channel it was tuned to. GI_Clutch has a new favorite as of 22:57 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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We had a black and white tv that was older than me that lived far into the late 90’s. It was our primary tv in the early and mid 80’s, relegated to spare when we got a color tv in the early 90’s and finally died in the late 90’s two weeks after my parents finally let me move it into my room  I had two whole glorious weeks of watching Conan and letterman in black and white while I went to bed.
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I had a little black and white 5" TV next to my bed all through the 90s. UHF, VHF, AM/FM, all that poo poo. I would put on Simpsons reruns while I did my homework in high school and watch David Letterman and SNL on it. The bottom had a compartment for like 8 C batteries too.
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Horace posted:Here's my Selectric and its balls: Hey there Selectric buddy, I have a Selectric II and I love it. Still works well, I need to get some new balls for it. It even has type correction which is amazing.
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Fo3 posted:remember playing my atari 2600 in colour in their bedroom around 1983. Yars revenge was a lovely enough game as it was, imagine having to play that in B&W? Whoa hey man Yars Revenge owns, I mean maybe it hasn't stood the test of time per se but it was different and cool in the day
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My mom got me a little handheld 2600 emulator thing for xmas a couple years back and i "beat" yars revenge in like 15 minutes. I played that for hours as a kid and never managed to see all the levels.
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Yars’ Revenge has stood the test of time and I’m saying this with absolute objectivity. Write an article in Medium or something about how it’s a natural evolution of darts or something if you have to.
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I bought Jar's Revenge because I'm an idiot. I think I played it once. At least it came with a nice sticker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEtQz-Wh5kc
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I'm glad to see some fellow Yars fans (Yarsians??) ITT, played a ton of that game back when, it should be better known today Had a Commodore too but shelved it long before Jars Revenge, more's the pity, Jerry thanks for sharing that 
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ElwoodCuse posted:I had a little black and white 5" TV next to my bed all through the 90s. UHF, VHF, AM/FM, all that poo poo. I would put on Simpsons reruns while I did my homework in high school and watch David Letterman and SNL on it. The bottom had a compartment for like 8 C batteries too. My dad had a Sony Watchman that he bought in the late 80s and used it at work for a while. I don't remember how many batteries it took, but I do remember it was one of the few things that could rival a Game Gear in a battery-draining contest.
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Today's tech relic: I walked into the den to play my guitar and saw printed MapQuest instructions on the printer tray. My wife had to go to a retreat for work and didn't like the results Google was giving her (she doesn't want to take the interstate during rush hour), so she used MapQuest. And printed them out.
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Does she know that she can drag the route google gives her so she can drive where she wants?
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GI_Clutch posted:Today's tech relic: I walked into the den to play my guitar and saw printed MapQuest instructions on the printer tray. My wife had to go to a retreat for work and didn't like the results Google was giving her (she doesn't want to take the interstate during rush hour), so she used MapQuest. And printed them out. Lol
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Cojawfee posted:Does she know that she can drag the route google gives her so she can drive where she wants? I doubt it. I thought of bringing it up, but I was probably already cutting it close with my "You really need to learn to use your phone navigation" and "I didn't know anyone still used MapQuest" comments. I didn't want to push my luck.
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Cojawfee posted:Does she know that she can drag the route google gives her so she can drive where she wants? I know I can do that and even so I feel like I can only make Google Maps do it a third of the time But maybe that's just the phone version
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Or click "no highways" on Google maps? Or just avoid the route and it'll correct over time in realtime?
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Cojawfee posted:Does she know that she can drag the route google gives her so she can drive where she wants? Yeah but then you have to print them because you can’t sync the changes to a phone.
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If I have to go somewhere at all weird or important, I'll usually sketch a map or write the rough directions down. Google Maps once sent me on a shortcut around heavy traffic, into a hilly one-way pass. It also sent thousands of other cars going both ways on that hilly one-way pass, which resulted in white-knuckle driving for an additional hour at the tail end of a six hour driving trip. One's not necessarily related to the other, but it was a wake-up call about trusting friggin GPS maps.
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